The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1914 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : John Castell Hopkins |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 2017-11-06 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780260432964 |
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Excerpt from The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1914 The War was the culmination of forty years of German aggressive ambition and cultivated national pride, Of militarist rivalry in which Germany was admittedly - by friends and foes alike - the pivot upon which all war preparation turned and the factor by which the Great Powers measured themselves. A defensive treaty in 1879 had brought Germany and Austria together in a Dual Alliance directed, chiefly, against possible Russian aggression - caused by the attitude of Germany in helping to take from the northern empire, at the Congress Of Berlin, the fruits Of its war with Turkey. This alignment became a Triple Alliance in 1882 when it was joined by Italy and later it became an Offensive and defensive alliance of the Teuton powers and Italy with the proviso on the latter's part that any war, in which she might be involved under its terms, must not be an aggressive one. After 1890, and the removal of Bis marck from the control Of German diplomacy, Russia drifted gradu ally into friendly relations with France and these merged in 1894 into a Dual Alliance Of the two powers which provided for definite, con certed action in the event of war. Britain commenced to abandon her splendid isolation after the South African War when so much hostility was shown her by the peoples Of Europe and, in 1904, a general agreement was con cluded between M. Delcasse for France and Lord Lansdowne for Britain which gave the latter country a free hand in Egypt and the former full liberty of action in Morocco. The entente cordiale followed and this good feeling was earnestly cultivated between the two countries until it became virtually an alliance for mutual defence - though not technically so and without absolutely defined pledges. In 1907, also, England came to terms with Russia as to respective spheres of Eastern influence and various causes of misunderstanding in Afghanistan, Persia and Thibet; gradually friendly relations, though without any definite agreement, between the two Empires took the place of the long period of open hostility or repressed rivalry, and continuous secret suspicion, which had marked Russia's advance through Central Asia and her century-long ambitions regarding Constantinople. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.